Commenter disputes HuggingFace hack as evidence of intelligence
4 Yesterday 8:57 PM · 18h ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 6
A Lobsters commenter challenges the essay's citation of the HuggingFace security breach as proof that AI has moved beyond pattern-matching, arguing that an unsupervised swarm of language models exploiting vulnerabilities demonstrates capability but not genuine intelligence.
“An unsupervised swarm of stochastic parrots told to emulate hacking and piped directly to shell managed to eventually exploit something. Like, yes, it can do harm, but that has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence.”
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> If you’ve paid attention to the HuggingFace hacking scandal and to what’s going on in mathematics, we’re well past the “stochastic parrot”, and have entered a world in which a sufficient amount of raw capital and verifiable constraints can solve complex problems. Unconvincing. An unsupervised swarm of stochastic parrots told to emulate hacking…
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> Drunk driving is more dangerous than drunk horseback riding ect This is a weird analogy. Is a car more advanced than a horse? A self-driving car is certainly more advanced than a regular car and you'd think drunk-driving a self-driving car is probably safer...
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